A Singaporean man was executed for importing over 1kg of cannabis, highlighting the nation's strict drug laws and capital punishment policy. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
If is was the case, I understand better the downvotes. That wasn’t my intention de frame it like that, I’m against death penalty.
What I intended to say is that people who takes substances that impair their judgement, and go drive afterward are a danger to everyone around them. They should be sanctioned, just not by death penalty, which, again, make no sense whatsoever in any situation.
Cannabis isn’t a harmless plant, unless it is a variety without THC (study: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9940647/). And I doubt a smuggler would import Cannabis without THC. Smuggled cannabis are almost always THC heavy plants, and considering how much he seem to have with him, he either intended to fly to the moon and back, or to sell it around.
Now, THC heavy cannabis is a problem because, like alcohol, it impair the jugement about how ready to drive one is, and I’ve seen many of my friends get into accidents because they thought they where somehow not affected by THC. My words were harsh, no doubt, but I never called for any of them to get death penalties.
Edit: drug resistance exists, of course, but isn’t frequent. I happen to have a mild resistance to opioid based painkillers (found out after a surgery, worst pain I have been for a long time 😅)
Nothing is. Thinking otherwise is fallacious zero-tolerance binary thinking. But in terms of magnitude and incidence rate of harm, it’s far less harmful than just about any other intoxicating substance.
it impair the jugement about how ready to drive one is
I’ve never heard that one before, and it’s contradictory to decades of first-hand experience. Let’s have an anecdata war, but not now, since I’m busy. Meanwhile, got any studies to cite? Evidence from US states that have legalized directly contradicts you.
drug resistance exists, of course, but isn’t frequent
While it’s not physically addictive like cocaine, alcohol, benzos and opioids are, cannabis tolerance builds up quickly in habitual users (if that’s what you mean by resistance).
If is was the case, I understand better the downvotes. That wasn’t my intention de frame it like that, I’m against death penalty.
What I intended to say is that people who takes substances that impair their judgement, and go drive afterward are a danger to everyone around them. They should be sanctioned, just not by death penalty, which, again, make no sense whatsoever in any situation.
Cannabis isn’t a harmless plant, unless it is a variety without THC (study: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9940647/). And I doubt a smuggler would import Cannabis without THC. Smuggled cannabis are almost always THC heavy plants, and considering how much he seem to have with him, he either intended to fly to the moon and back, or to sell it around.
Now, THC heavy cannabis is a problem because, like alcohol, it impair the jugement about how ready to drive one is, and I’ve seen many of my friends get into accidents because they thought they where somehow not affected by THC. My words were harsh, no doubt, but I never called for any of them to get death penalties.
Edit: drug resistance exists, of course, but isn’t frequent. I happen to have a mild resistance to opioid based painkillers (found out after a surgery, worst pain I have been for a long time 😅)
Nothing is. Thinking otherwise is fallacious zero-tolerance binary thinking. But in terms of magnitude and incidence rate of harm, it’s far less harmful than just about any other intoxicating substance.
I’ve never heard that one before, and it’s contradictory to decades of first-hand experience. Let’s have an anecdata war, but not now, since I’m busy. Meanwhile, got any studies to cite? Evidence from US states that have legalized directly contradicts you.
While it’s not physically addictive like cocaine, alcohol, benzos and opioids are, cannabis tolerance builds up quickly in habitual users (if that’s what you mean by resistance).